Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik Don’t Let Your Goals Hold You Back with Emmanuel Acho
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Apr 25, 2022 Emmanuel Acho, a former NFL player and Emmy Award-winning analyst, dives into redefining goal-setting. He argues that traditional goals can limit potential and encourages embracing creativity to transform failures into growth opportunities. Acho discusses overcoming fear and self-doubt using affirmations and self-belief. He emphasizes the importance of discovering unique abilities and adopting a limitless mindset to break free from societal constraints. His latest book, "Illogical," serves as a guide to dreaming bigger and achieving more.
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Logic Limits Achievement
- Greatest accomplishments come after abandoning logic, or conventional wisdom.
- Embrace innate creativity and brilliance by defying logic.
Fear of Ketchup
- Emmanuel Acho's friend feared a ketchup packet, illustrating mortuosqueous phobia (fear of ketchup).
- This highlights how others' fears can limit us, like avoiding relationships or businesses due to friends' or families' anxieties.
The 4-Minute Mile
- Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile barrier in 1952, despite it being considered physically impossible.
- Within two years, 10 others achieved it, proving that limits are often self-imposed.
